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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
protectionist reversals together mean that few companies can afford to remain focused on their domestic markets. Managers responsible for marketing in a multinational or global enterprise must design appropriate marketing programs for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
417-051 Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
and organizations. To make appropriate design tradeoffs, they must have extensive knowledge of engineering and of business fundamentals. Consequently, the Harvard MS/MBA program will place a balanced emphasis on conveying concepts and... View Details
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From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice | Baker Library
Goodman noted that women alumnae reported work-related problems included insufficient salary, lack of appropriate work, employer discrimination, and lack of flexible hours. (2) Management Training Program directors, 1946-1947. Radcliffe... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
added that "with almost Œreal-time' information, business can now make appropriate decisions rather than guess." Second on the list was telecommunications, "a great facilitator, the pipeline that allows other View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
helped give 'made in Germany' a sheen of quality rather than shoddiness. Managing Innovation in Small Worlds Authors:Lee Fleming and Matt Marx Periodical:MIT Sloan Management Review 48, no. 1 (fall 2006): 8-9 Abstract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
teaching undergraduates). At the B-School, by contrast, the professors were, for the most part, a lot more fun. All but a few were great at relating to us, most of them with a wit and energy and clarity one did not find as often at Harvard College. It was most View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
circumstances, including human purposes, evolved. While the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism can balance supply and demand on a global basis, or in subunits thereof, the visible hand of political authority is essential to the formulation of human purposes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
and organizations, leaving few left for newcomers and growth. In this context, some networks seek to sell the addresses they previously received-sales that can usefully transfer resources to the networks that most need them, but with certain risks that must be handled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the organization don’ t have much incentive to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
that bring appropriate contributions to the ecosystem and those that will be tempted to eat the data for lunch for themselves once they gain access. —Alex Evans (MBA 1993) At an early stage, AGR should follow the Apple ecosystem and work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
aspects that the company tries to incorporate into all of its products are “hands-on, minds-on” and ensuring that toys are appropriately challenging — not so hard that they alienate newcomers but not so simple that kids get bored with... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
opportunities for MBA graduates. “It became clear that innovation was no longer taking place only in the United States, and that there were different kinds of innovations in different places,” says Palepu.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could not have experienced its unprecedented levels of View Details
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When AI Chatbots Help People Act More Human | Working Knowledge
make customer service more human. Some agents received real-time response suggestions from the AI tool, while others did not. The tool began as an AI crisis hotline designed to manage difficult conversations with empathy and appropriate... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial... View Details